Wellness Tip of the Day #2

My last wellness tip said wellness was about habits.

The first habit I mentioned was what and how much you eat. I want you to quit calling this a diet! Your diet is everything you eat.  You need to choose an eating plan that you can stick with for the rest of your life. Yes, I said for the rest of your life.

I mean, you are not doing this to reach an end like loosing 10 pounds or even 100 pounds and then you quit and do what ever you want. Generally this will undo all the effort you put into changing your habits. This attitude is why I called my first course in wellness Recipe to Look Better Naked. People will make huge sacrifices to look better for some event or season. Balderdash! That is so short sighted but I am not talking about YOU, just the person sitting next to you.

So what are the characteristics of a good diet?

First, quit trying to make your eating plan into a list of do’s and don’ts. That is one way, but humans have the quality of wanting to be free. They quickly tire of following a plan of the same thing day in and day out. You must have some flexibility and you must have some variety.  It must be something you can stick with for the rest of your life. There are some eating plans that lay things out for you and no one of them is perfect or will work for everyone.

The idea of an eating plan is to provide the maco  nutrients that are protein, fat and carbohydrate  in a good proportion and just the right quantity so that an ideal functioning of the body is maintained. Along with the macro nutrients are micro nutrients – these are phytochemicals and cofactors that we get from eating a wide variety of in season produce and the accompanying vitamins, minerals and trace elements necessary for wellness.

When you think of eating you think of calories and plans and what you can and can’t have. That is all good, but I want you to begin to think in terms of your physiology. What happens when you eat food? Think in terms of hormones – insulin, adrenalin, cortisol, glucagon, BDNF, and many others we know and some we will discover sometime soon.  Make the hormones react the way they should for optimum health and you are well.

How does this happen?  My next tip tomorrow will discuss the important hormones you want to influence with your diet.

Until then, give me your ideas about what you think works and does not work.  Leave me a comment or question in the comments section. If you really want to discuss this in detail, lets do a telephone seminar. You can listen through your computer or on the phone and talk to me in real time. You need yourself and 4 friends to do this.  I will act as your coach for one hour and help you to make the initial decisions to get started. Any takers on that offer? Talk to you tomorrow about diet as hormone therapy.

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